ce_command dealing with multiple hosts

[xqxrrz1ge2]

I am using this sample playbook:

---
- name: "sample book"
  hosts: localhost
  connection: local
  vars:
    cli:
      host: 172.19.2.1
      port: 22
      username: telnet
      password: Huawei@123
      transport: cli

  tasks:
  - name: run display version on remote devices
    ce_command:
      commands: display version
      provider: "{{ cli }}"

It works well when connecting a single CE switch. But how can I connect to a group of switches which I already defined in /etc/ansible/hosts in the first place? Assuming I have got group which is called SIS, when I replace the '172.19.2.1' with 'SIS', ansible is actually trying to connect 'SIS', but not the IP addresses listing in /etc/ansible/hosts. Plz help!

[xqxrrz1ge2]

can somebody help, please?

[QijunPan]

@ticonci please try:

---
- name: "sample book"
  hosts: SIS
  connection: local
  vars:
    cli:
      host: '{{ inventory_hostname }}'
      port: 22
      username: telnet
      password: Huawei@123
      transport: cli

  tasks:
  - name: run display version on remote devices
    ce_command:
      commands: display version
      provider: "{{ cli }}"

[xqxrrz1ge2]

it works. thx a lot